Sealing and opening device for cartons.



Y E. H. UNGEMAGH.

SEALING'AND OPENING DEVICE FOR GARTONS.

APPLIGATION FILED APR. 16. 1906.

Patented Nov. 10, 1908.

" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD HARRY UNGEMACH, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

SEALING AND OPENING DEVICE FOR OARTONS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

rammed Nov. 10,1908.

Application filed April 16, 1906. Serial No. 311,811.

,To all whom it may concern:. Be it"v known that I, EDWARD H. UNGE- MACH, a citizen of the United States, residin atDenver, in the county of Denver an State of Colorado, have invented a new-and useful Way to Seal and Open Cartons, of

g which the following is a specification.

- My invention relates to improvements in a sealing and opening device for cartons It consists of a tape fastened .to the cartons in such a manner as to provide a sealing device for the foldin closures and also an opening means. Wit this improvement the .carton is easily opened and the wrappers are view of a carton aving applied thereto'my invention. Fig. 2 is. a section through line 7 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detailperspective view showin the manner of breaking .the seal. Fig. 4 1s a similar view to Fig.2 show-' ing the package or carton open.

The same reference characters indicate they 1 same parts in all the views.

Let the numeral 5 designate the carton with the fordinaryfolding arts v6 and 7.

When the carton 5 has een filled, and the parts 6 and 7 occupy their closing. position, the end 8 of my improved sealin and opening ta e 9 is glued to the side 8 o the carton. It is t en passed over the meeting edges of the parts 7 andis glued to the opposite side of the carton, thereby sealing the parts 6'and 7 in their closing osition as shown in Fi 2 of they drawing. he label 10 is then a'ppfied lloft to the carton having its outer edges 11 overlapping the edges of said carton,'and'fas- 12, 8, and 13 of the tape; After this labe has been a plied, the tape is folded over the edge lie label 10 to averticalposition, leav-.

ing its extremityl l free and projecting'abovej the to of the carton. The label 15 is thenplie to the sides of the carton, covering lie edges 11 of. the label 10 and the part 16' a t of the tapeQ.

The openin operation of the c'arton'or receptacle is as ollows: A person, by p on jtened to the sides thereof covering the arts the free extremity 14 of'the tape, t

breaks the label 15 as shown in Fig.3, and

then the parts 11 and '17 .of .the abelIO.

After the label has been torn at 17' and the meeting edges '18 of the closures 7 ex used,

said closures are then 0 ened and free from the edges 11 of label 10 y placin the'fingers under themeeting edges 18 and olding said parts backward, after whichoperation the closures 6 are-o. ened and the contents removed as desire e v Having thus descrlbed my'invention, what Iclaim is,

The combination'w ith a papercarton having folding closures, of ,a' strip of fiexiblema terial placed" over the adjacent "edges 'of-the closures and passed down along the side edges of the carton and secured thereto, one extremity of the flexible material being folded backupon itself and projecting above the carton a label covering the foldingclosuresand a portion of the flexible strip, a'nda wrapping placed around the-cartonand covering the portions 'of the flexible strips'which-are secured to the sides of the carton.-

'EDWARD HARRY uncrmen. I

Witnesses:

MARY E. Un'enmon,

EDITH F. WIL 'IAMs. 

